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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

Pearl S. Buck

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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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Hillsboro
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Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
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Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.
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you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
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